Latest Techpoint Podcast Episodes
Episode 25: Why you shouldn't be a manager
Techpoint Charlie - October 19, 2020 05:00 - 48 minutesNoa Tamir (Data Science Manager) and Raz Shuty (Engineering Manager) share with Alaa Sarhan (IC Fullstack-er) what management is about in general and why an IC (Individual Contributor) is nowadays more than ever empowered to not become a manager for the wrong reasons. Sneak-peak reasons from th...
Episode 24: QA, Automation, and everything in between
Techpoint Charlie - August 24, 2020 05:00 - 49 minutesNoa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Rony Lahav about the role of QA and Automation, Why do we need QA people (or why developers shouldn’t be the only testers), Different Test - Component, Integration, System, E2E, Is Manual QA dead? We also touched on: Automation is a software project when s...
Episode 23 - Functional Management
Techpoint Charlie - July 27, 2020 07:00 - 50 minutesNoa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Alexandra Paun (@ale_paun) about the Functional Manager hat that she often wears as part of her current job at King. We learn from Alexandra the many intersections this role has with many, if not all functions and departments in the organization, even extend...
Quickpoint Charlie Episode 4: Persona frameworks for a team event
Techpoint Charlie - June 29, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutesA quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes: Have you used any persona framework at work. If so what did you like about it? What was it good for? What’s the downside of ...
Episode 22: Emotions at work (with Phil Bennett)
Techpoint Charlie - June 22, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutesNoa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan meet with our lovely guest Phil Bennett to chat about Emotions at work Triggered by an article Phil Bennett wrote called The Crying Game: It’s OK to Cry at Work! Emotions are unavoidable and normal, but you have to understand the emotional Labour you’re putting on oth...
Extra stuff from our emotions at work episode: Games and Remote Emotions at work
Techpoint Charlie - June 18, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutesMulti-faceted technology-culture podcast
Quickpoint Charlie Episode 3: Too Many Meetings
Techpoint Charlie - June 15, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutesA quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes: How do you battle the common "too many meetings" problem? Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it...
Episode 21: Measuring Success
Techpoint Charlie - June 08, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutesAlaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) Fullstack Engineer at Doodle is inviting Armin Bognar Product Advisor and Head of Product at Orderlion and Marc Sandifer Senior Product Manager at Contorion for a conversation to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences around measuring success in product co...
Episode 20: Open Plan Offices: 3 hosts, too many feelings
Techpoint Charlie - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutesRaz Shuty, Noa Tamir, and Alaa Sarhan meet to chat about open plan offices, and how working in them makes them feel.. We mention in this episode: The (recent) history of open plan offices Our personal experiences working in open plan offices, and other office plans Cubicles! HBR's "The Tru...
Episode 20: Open Plan Offices: 3 hosts, too many feelings
Techpoint Charlie - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutesRaz Shuty, Noa Tamir, and Alaa Sarhan meet to chat about open plan offices, and how working in them makes them feel.. We mention in this episode: The (recent) history of open plan offices Our personal experiences working in open plan offices, and other office plans Cubicles! HBR's "The Tru...
Episode 19 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 2): Talking about Managers
Techpoint Charlie - May 18, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutesA quick episode where Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are randomly asking themselves two questions and trying to see how they feel about them: Can you be a Manager without being an IC in the role? Can managers be friends with the people they manage? Nothing scientific here, more lik...
Episode 18: On Call Engineering: How to do it and Smile with Charity Majors
Techpoint Charlie - May 11, 2020 06:00 - 47 minutesOn-Call Engineering: How to do it and smile Intro to the topic and Charity Majors What is on-call even? And why does it exist? Our Experiences with on-call? When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it How to onboard to on-call? Can it be ...
Episode 18: On Call Engineering: How to do it and Smile
Techpoint Charlie - May 11, 2020 06:00 - 47 minutesOn-Call Engineering: How to do it and smile Intro to the topic and Charity Majors What is on-call even? And why does it exist? Our Experiences with on-call? When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it How to onboard to on-call? Can it be ...
Episode 17: Good Manager, Bad Manager
Techpoint Charlie - April 27, 2020 05:00 - 1 hourYael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one... We mentioned in this episode What is the role of a manager? What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Stra...
Episode 16: What is the role of Data Scientist?
Techpoint Charlie - April 13, 2020 06:00 - 1 hourYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and Noa Tamir are talking about what is the role of a data scientist What do people usually get wrong about this role? How can data scientists help, and who? What skills or mindset are importa...
Episode 15: What is Product-minded Engineering? What are product-minded developers?
Techpoint Charlie - March 30, 2020 06:00 - 1 hourDaniel Rüdiger Senior Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Alaa Sarhan Fullstack Engineer at Doodle (yes yes! the doodle you send your friends when you are trying to arrange a movie night at your place) and Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero are having an episode without Yael and N...
Episode 14: Remote Work: past, COVID19, and future
Techpoint Charlie - March 23, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutesNoa Tamir is our awesome new host, and Raz Shuty met remotely to talk about remote work, but also about this specific occasion of remote work with Covid-19... Trying to understand what is remote work first of all, what are our feelings and experiences and talk about different models (and what i...
Episode 13: Let's make sense of Data Science
Techpoint Charlie - March 16, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutesYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and our awesome guest Noa Tamir are trying to make sense of the data of data science, what are the different roles? What is the difference between User Research, Market Research, Data Science Rese...
Episode 12: UX Research
Techpoint Charlie - October 21, 2019 06:00 - 58 minutesAnne's reading recommendations: Must have - UX Maturity Model: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-stages-1-4/ Nice to have - The role of a user researcher: https://medium.com/@stonecrops/the-researchers-journey-leveling-up-as-a-user-researcher-a85cd35b53f5 Research Ops community:...
Episode 12: UX Research
Techpoint Charlie - October 21, 2019 06:00 - 58 minutesAnne's reading recommendations: Must have - UX Maturity Model: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-stages-1-4/ Nice to have - The role of a user researcher: https://medium.com/@stonecrops/the-researchers-journey-leveling-up-as-a-user-researcher-a85cd35b53f5 Research Ops community:...
Episode 11: One on Ones
Techpoint Charlie - September 16, 2019 05:00 - 51 minutesYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means t...
Episode 11: One on Ones
Techpoint Charlie - September 16, 2019 05:00 - 51 minutesYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means t...
Episode 10: What it means for everyone to have design and UX leading the strategy?
Techpoint Charlie - June 10, 2019 06:00 - 52 minutesYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE are happy to host Erin Jeavons-Fellows Head of Design (Product) @Delivery Hero Germany and they are talking about where from which point should designers be involved in strategy talks and how to improve ...
Episode 9: Processes - How to build processes that would work for you and not you enslaved to them?
Techpoint Charlie - May 26, 2019 11:00 - 56 minutesYael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about Processes, how to build them right, what no to do? do overhauls ever work? and why Raz hates them so much :) During the episode we mentioned future episodes that this talk inspired us to...
Episode 8: Retrospectives - How to do them right and what pitfalls to avoid?
Techpoint Charlie - May 12, 2019 23:00 - 51 minutesYael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about retrospectives (and why Raz is SO high on them): We talked about retrospectives, and why they are so good, why value they could bring if they are done right (and of course how to do them...
Episode 7: Tech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board?
Techpoint Charlie - April 29, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourTech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board? Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about tech debt: We concluded in the episode that tech debt is a normal thing in every place, and no company or org exists without tech...
Episode 6: What is organisational culture anyway? (With Charles)
Techpoint Charlie - April 15, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourSuper interesting talk with Charles about organisational culture and why should organisations care Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab, Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE host a guest for the first time! today we meet Charles Ahmadzadeh Co-founder & Engineering 🤖 @bunch.ai to talk abou...
Episode 5: Interviews - What we look for in people when we interview
Techpoint Charlie - April 01, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutesQuick discussion about interviews and mostly what we look for in people when we interview them. Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about interviews. We mentioned in this episode The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Also Avai...
Episode 4 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 1): Biases...
Techpoint Charlie - March 22, 2019 23:00 - 24 minutesQuick discussion about biases, What they are and why should we care... Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about biases. Biases: What they are and why should we care... We mentioned in this episode How to Be a Great Manage...
Episode 3: Hiring - How to build a hiring process and how to make it bias free if possible?
Techpoint Charlie - March 18, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutesWelcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role. This episode contains: Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about hiring. Topic: How to...
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